as in big
one of high position or importance within a group
among food and beverage magazines, it's one of the biggies
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That includes your standard commercial stuff — Another Simple Favor, The Accountant 2, and A24’s Death of a Unicorn are among this year’s biggies — as well as new films from Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker, Chad Hartigan, Under the Shadow’s Babak Anvari, and The Vast of Night breakout Andrew Patterson.
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Public education is another biggie.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
Underlying many midlife health woes are disappearing hormones—estrogen being the biggie in women.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
Develop micro-goals on the way to the biggie.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Public education is another biggie.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025
Underlying many midlife health woes are disappearing hormones—estrogen being the biggie in women.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
Develop micro-goals on the way to the biggie.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biggie
Noun
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And in Miami, Bam Adebayo continues to thrive as a hybrid big who can score, pass, and switch.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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While there’s a deep well of high-end guard prospects, the bigs have a smaller list and could produce Maluach and Queen as the lone lottery picks.—
Aaron Beard,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Others are the heaviest of the heavy: a college student rendered brain-dead by a fentanyl overdose, a little girl who fatally drowns while saving her sister who fell into their swimming pool.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Biggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biggie. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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